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ACADEMIA - Academic repository for researchers and institutions. The goal of ACADEMIA is to store and make accessible academic works produced in Latvia.
Academic Video Online - Video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAccessDermatologyDxRx - AccessDermatologyDxRx is a comprehensive resource for all physicians and other healthcare providers including medical students, dermatology residents, internists, oncologists, and infectious disease specialists. With thousands of images that include all of the essential information to help you with clinical decision-making, this resource covers the full scope of dermatologic conditions.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAccessMedicine - AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine, with essential information accessible anywhere. AccessMedicine contains full text for more than 80 textbooks, a unique collection of more than 250 examination and procedural videos, to more than 1,000 diagnoses through Diagnosaurus, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, patients education information, drug database, images, etc.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAccessPharmacy - AccessPharmacy gives pharmacy students instant access to multimedia and pharmacy textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning, and allows practicing pharmacists to get information instantly about drugs, herbs and supplements, and consult features and editorials concerning the vast array of current pharmacy publications.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAkadTerm - Academic term database, which is a collection of terms developed and approved by the Terminology Commission of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, to which other term collections have also been added. The database contains 857,352 terms in 6 languages.
AMBOSS - AMBOSS is a learning system for medical students. Unlimited library usage and 100 questions per month. Limited for 2000 enrolled students of Medical Faculty.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAnatomy Next - Anatomy Next – an interactive 3D anatomy learning platform.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAPA PsycARTICLES - American Psychological Association (APA) database, providing full-text journal articles in psychology and related sciences.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusAPA PsycTherapy - An APA database of psychotherapy videos. Featuring expert psychotherapists demonstrating the approaches for which they are known in unscripted, spontaneous sessions, APA PsycTherapy provides access to hundreds of hours of therapy demonstrations involving diverse participants and various presenting issues.
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Bentham Open Access - Bentham OPEN offers access to over 230 peer-reviewed open access journals. These online journals cover all major scientific disciplines: medicine, engineering, and social sciences.
BiomedCentral - A publisher providing direct open access to biomedical resources. More than 130 journals in various biomedical fields (most of them freely available in full text), clinical trials database, biomedical news. Search for journals by title or category. News, information for scientists, overview of controlled trials.
BMJ Journals - The British Medical Journal online version and BMJ Journals Online Collection online journal collection, access to over 20 leading medical journals and their archives.
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Cambridge University Press Journals (arhīvs līdz 2010.g.) - The Universal Full-Text Database provides the opportunity to search for and find information in scientific journals on various topics: biology, medicine, culture, history, ecology, social sciences, economics, business, psychology, philosophy, and more. Access to full-text journals is available up to the year 2010.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusChemSpider - An open-access chemistry database that provides quick access to information from more than 400 data sources. The database was created by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Cambridge). Several search types are possible: simple, advanced, by chemical structure, by chemical element, etc. You can search and access all ChemSpider data without registration. Registered users gain additional privileges, including uploading the searched information.
ClinicalKey - ClinicalKey is a medical search engine and database tool owned by medical and scientific publishing company Elsevier that offers access to the medical library published by that company. Users of ClinicalKey are given full-text access to over 500 of Elsevier's journals, 1000 books, and 9,000 medical and procedural videos. To help users decide which are the most relevant articles and authoritative authors, the system provides a series of original reviews by subject matter experts known as Clinical Overviews.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusCochrane Library - The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusCommunication Source (EBSCO) - A research database in communication sciences, mass media, and related fields, offering both article abstracts and full texts.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusCORE (C0nnecting REpositories) - CORE aggregates scientific research (full text of scientific articles) from data providers around the world, including institutional repositories, institutional repositories, and journal publishers. CORE currently contains 83,326,016 open access articles from over ten thousand journals, aggregated from over 3,758 repositories worldwide.
CRD Databases - Search in the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination databases: DARE, NHS EED and HTA, publications: CRD reviews, Effective Health Care and Effectiveness Matters, collection of training materials (Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal, Evidence Based Health Care, Health Technology Assessment Health Economics).
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Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (EBSCO) - Includes full-text journals on dentistry, endodontics, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, prosthodontics, and more.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusDigitālā bibliotēka - The Digital Library provides access to images, documents, periodicals, books, maps, museum objects, paintings, sheet music, films, audio and video recordings collected by Latvia’s archives, museums, libraries, organisations, communities and individuals.
Directory of Open Access Books - Offers 750 open access e-books from 20 publishers in various scientific fields.
Directory of Open Access Journals - Search engine for freely available periodicals. Search by title, by industry. Search within articles is also possible.
DynaMed (EBSCO) - Evidence-based medical information handbook containing clinical reviews on various medical topics.
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eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) - Multidisciplinary eBook database, contains full text for nearly 200 000 books.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusEbook Central Academic Complete (ProQuest) - Ebook Central collection is a multidisciplinary collection of over 125,000 scholarly e-books from leading scholarly publishers
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusElsevier open access journals - Elsevier open access journals database.
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition - Encyclopedia Britannica Online database is an analog of the full printed edition in which it is possible to search in all entries simultaneous, browse alphabetically or by subject. This database provides information about important events, achievements, recognizable persons and world news.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusERIC (EBSCO) - Over 1,300,000 units of educational information, including 317,000 full-text documents.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusEuropean Pharmacopoeia online - The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) is the primary source of official quality standards for medicines and their ingredients in Europe. Ph. Eur. standards provide a scientific basis for the quality control of a product throughout its life cycle, supporting the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare systems.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 (EBSCO) - The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusEUROPEANA - The Europeana website provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe's digital cultural heritage. Access to millions of items from providing institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.
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Gene Cards - Human gene database containing information on gene diversity and their impact on diseases. Search by diseases, keywords.
GenomeNet - News, gene and genome databases, Kyoto University Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes.
GreenFILE (EBSCO) - Scientific, government, and other publications on global warming, ecological construction, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) - A database of 80 full-text journals covering various medical fields such as nutrition, child care, women's health, sports medicine, and more.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusHealth Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) - A database of 550 full-text medical journals covering nursing, health maintenance, and more.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusHeinOnline - The HeinOnline International Core package includes an entire digital library containing nearly 3,000 law and law-related journals published in more than 60 different countries, alongside thousands of Australian, Canadian, and European legal materials, essential foreign legal yearbooks, and a wealth of international government publications. Subject coverage includes: Constitutional Law, Laws of the Sea, Human Rights, Women's Studies, Criminal Law, International Trade, Education and much more.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusHIV Molecular Immunology Database - Databases in AIDS molecular immunology – Sequence DB, Resistance DB, Immunology DB, Vaccine Trials DB. Immunology Tools – Epilign, PeptGen, Motif Scan, Sequence Locator, ELF. HCV Databases. Publications. News, links to similar pages.
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INTECHopen - The database offers more than 900 e-books and e-journals in physics, engineering, natural sciences, and health sciences.
IRIS - WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing - WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing.
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Latvian Nature - Information on 5458 species with 7858 images of varying degrees of maturity can be found.
LETA Archive - The database of the Latvian National News Agency offers the latest news, press releases, morning press and economic reviews, etc.; archive available.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusLetonika.lv - Letonika is digital information resourse containing encyclopaedic resources, translation and terminology dictionaries, as well as Internet resources.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusLibrary, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCO) - Indexed and accessible abstracts for around 700 periodicals, as well as books, research reviews and reports from the 1960s on library science, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, and information management.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusLiebert Open Access - Mary Ann Liebert Publishing offers peer-reviewed, open access journals in medicine.
LURSOFT Newspaper library News.lv - The database was developed by LURSOFT in cooperation with Latvian central and regional newspapers. Full-text database of Latvian newspapers.
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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) - More than 1700 full-text articles from periodicals in all fields, especially in business, law, health, and other areas; also includes bibliographic information, as well as photographs, maps, and flags.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusMedDRA - Regulatīvās informācijas medicīniskā vārdnīca - MedDRA is a collection of terms for medical conditions, investigations, medical procedures, social, family history, etc., but this dictionary does not include, for example, test numerical values for results and substance names.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusMEDLINE Ultimate (EBSCO) - The world's most extensive source of full-text journal information in medicine. MEDLINE Ultimate offers full-text articles from more than 2400 medical science journals.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusMedlinePlus - MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends.
Medscape - Free registration required. The database includes information for 38 medical specialists. Current events in the specialty, lectures, information about medical conferences, medical journals and manuals are offered. The portal includes a link to the search engines MEDLINE and Drug Reference.
MERLOT - Educational and research resources for online learning: freely available full-text books, journal articles, dissertations and other materials.
MolPort - The database offers advanced substance search capabilities, allowing you to search for chemicals by text and by drawing their structure. Here you can see an example of how MolPort displays information about different molecules, provides information about the substance itself, its properties, synonyms, and serves commercial and non-commercial sources about the substance on the Internet.
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National Encyclopedia - 5036 original articles in Latvian on comprehensive topics.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO) - Full-text articles from approximately 45 U.S. national and international newspapers, as well as around 389 U.S. regional newspapers.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusNozare.lv - The national news agency LETA offers the business information service Nozare.lv, where the latest and most current information about what is happening in the industry is compiled and systematized in the most important Latvian business sectors.
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) - Full-text scientific book database in various fields: business and management, humanities and social sciences, law, economics, finance, mathematics, art, etc. (in English, Danish, French, Italian, Norwegian, German, etc.).
Official Statistics Portal. Official Statistics of Latvia - Official Statistics of Latvia.
Open Access at Routledge and Taylor & Francis - The database contains open-access e-journals from various scientific fields (including medicine).
OpenAlex - OpenAlex is a free access bibliographic catalogue named after the Library of Alexandria. It contains more than 209 million indexed scientific works from approximately 124 000 sources, covering 256 disciplines.
OpenDissertations (EBSCO) - An open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusOpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) - The database collects detailed information about Open Access repositories. It provides search capabilities both within each repository separately and across all repositories simultaneously from over 80 countries.
Otseeker - Database of systematic reviews and clinical trial abstracts in occupational therapy. Search by keyword and/or one of the proposed criteria (author, title, journal name, etc.). Study rating helps to assess the quality and validity of studies. Evidence-based practice (EBP) guide. Internet links to other related resources.
OVID LWW žurnālu arhīvs līdz 2008.g. - RSU offers 63 journal archives with full-text articles up to the year 2008.
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PEN: Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition - PEN database provides access to information on evidence-based researches in food and nutrition. It was established by the associations of dietologists and nutrition specialists from Canada, Great Britain and Australia. A limited number of nutrition teachers and students are eligible to access the database solely with their RSU usernames and passwords.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusPeriodika.lv - Portal of Periodicals includes almost 3000 newspapers and magazines of various names - more than 2.5 million pages - published both in Latvia and in exile. These are issues that are most sought-after or are in very bad condition.
Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) - Database of bibliographic descriptions and abstracts of randomized trials, controlled trials, systematic reviews, clinical guidelines in physiotherapy. The website includes a training book for working with the database.
Project Gutenberg (Free eBooks) - Project Gutenberg offers over 39,000 free e-books across a variety of subjects.
ProQuest Central - The largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Military and Political Sciences, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global - Dissertations in various scientific fields (including medicine, social sciences, economics, etc.).
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Piekļuve ārpus RSUPubMed - US National Institutes of Medicine database.
PubMed Central - Open access journals in biomedicine in English.
PubMed – Bookshelf - A collection of biomedical books with full text available.
Purple Book database - Licensed Biological Products Database, information on all FDA-licensed allergens, cell and gene therapy, hematological and vaccine products regulated by the Center for Biological Research.
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SAGE Journals - SAGE Publications – an independent international publishing company offers a full-text journal collection on various topics: economics and business management, engineering, computer science, communications and media, material sciences, mathematics and statistics, environmental sciences, agriculture, medicine, arts, social sciences, and more. Approximately 1000 full-text scientific journals are available.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusSAGE Research Methods Core - At RSU, we have access to the Books and Reference (SRM Core) module, which includes books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journal publications and a limited selection of video materials, as well as two collections in the SAGE Research Methods Video module: Practical Research and Academic Skills and Research Ethics and Integrity.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusScience Direct - RSU provides access to approximately 2000 full-text articles from various scientific fields, published from 2002 to the latest issues. This includes Elsevier journals in medicine, dentistry, biochemistry, psychology, social sciences, finance, economics, and more.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusSCOPUS - SCOPUS is a multi-field abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature of the publishing company ELSEVIER containing nearly 20 000 journals from around 5000 publishers and 4.6 million conference proceedings. Scopus also offers article summaries and possibility to download full texts from full-text databases, such as ScienceDirect, SAGE and others. Full texts can be downloaded solely from those journals available in databases subscribed to by RSU or free access databases.Database Scopus provides RSU academic and administrative staff with access to information about publications in the leading scientific journals and their citations by thus enabling to assess scientific achievements of publication authors.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusSociology Source Ultimate (EBSCO) - Includes full-text journal articles, full-text monographs, and full-text conference materials in sociology, criminology, demography, social psychology, and related fields.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusSportDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO) - The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1930, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.
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UNdata - Statistical databases of the UN and international agencies.
UpToDate - UpToDate is an e-resource designed to provide physicians the access to current clinical information. It addresses specific clinical issues in the form of topic reviews. Topic reviews include very specific clinical titles. Text includes embedded links to MEDLINE abstracts of referenced studies and other related topic reviews. Reviews may also include links to charts, X rays, photographs, movies, and drug information. UpToDate covers primarily internal medicine and its subspecialties. Limited access for RSU Medical faculty students 5th and 6th study year, teachers and 100 residents.
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Web of Science - Web of Science database contains information about around 12 000 journals in natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts by offering bibliographical information and citation reports. Database offers wide opportunities for searching, selecting and analysing the results.
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Connect to the database outside the University CampusWiley Online Journals - Full-text articles from various topics are available in Wiley journals: business and economics, finance, computer science, information technology, medicine, social sciences, psychology, law and criminology, natural sciences, and more.
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